On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote:
> I started to boot RH7.2 at single mode (linux single). The PC halted after ;
>
> Enable SWAP space : [OK]
> sh - 2.05#
Halted like you couldn't type anything, or halted like you were expecting
it to do something else? Single user mode is just a shell, with no
unnecessary services running.
> I re-installed RH7.2 choosing LILO bootloader instead of Drub.
That's GRUB, the Grand Unified Bootloader.
> After installation completed PC re-started and halted on
>
> LIL-
If you installed on /dev/hda, then what does the output of:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
look like? It's possible that you needed a /boot partition that the BIOS
can access, and you didn't make one. (Autopartitioning should have
worked.)
> My questions are ;
>
> 1) How to correct LIL- to boot Linux
> 2) What are the advantage and disadvantage between LILO and Drub
GRUB is more inteligent than LILO. The former can read filesystems using
a second stage loader, and can therefore boot kernel images that exist on
disk, but not in the config file. LILO can't do that.
GRUB will allow you to add or remove an initrd from a kernel definition.
LILO won't let you do that.
There're other differences, but in general, GRUB is the way to go.
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